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BIKULI, KAPILVASTU, NEPAL

Introduction

Bikuli is a small village in Niglihawa Village Development committee (NVDC), ward number 4 in kapilvastu district of western Nepal. The village was named Bikuli because, there were no water sources (Kulo) for irrigation in that village and hence meaning is without canals. Bikuli was new version of Bekulo ('Be' stands for 'not' and 'Kulo' stands for 'canals').

The location 

The village is situated 8 Km north from the district headquarter, Taulihawa and 8.5 Km north from the Tilaurakot, the proper kapilvastu, where Lord [Gautam Budhdha] was born and grown up. While this is 12 km south from the East-West Highway of Nepal. This place lies on the bank of the largest manmade Lake of the Asia called Jagadishpur taal (lake). The lake also called reservoir, made for the collection of river water for the irrigation of the southern belt of the Kapilvastu District during the dry season.

The ethnic composition'

This is a unique village that is the border village of hill tribe and madeshi people, where both madeshi, hill tribes, the ethnic tharu community and Muslims are living together in harmony. This is probably highly educated village in the kapilvastu district, where most of the people are engaged in teaching job.

Life style

The life is not comfortable due to the remoteness, no better road connection and unconnected to the city transport. Furthermore, the production in the village is very low due to the lack of irrigation waters in the village, costly input, lack of the high yielding crop varieties and non mechanized cultivation /farming practices. With the time passes, most of the new generation of the household started to temporarily immigrated to the nearest city, Butwal for education and further long-way after Butwal to the Capital city Kathmandu in search of the better and quality life style.

Facilities

Kapilvastu district the birth place of the Lord Budhdha is one of the poorly developed district of Nepal, often said that ‘’Sugam ko Durgam Jilla’’ meaning that remote district of the non remote-place. Bikuli, by name is another remote village having very poor facilities. The only one primary school is the main asset of the people living in the village. Most of the basic facilities are available after 1 hour-3 hours of walking distance.